[Users] mail went.... where?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

rikona wrote:
>Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
   
>> grep -r "Xfinity" *  
>
>Thanks! I ran this and it did find the emails. They were in another
>account that USED to contain the folder for Xfinity emails, but I had
>to change my email address to keep Comcast happy.

Good news and a quick, happy ending to the issue.

>Looks like the "filter all msgs in folder" cmd did not honor the
>designated acct and moved to the wrong folder. New emails are sorted
>correctly.

You'll want to update your filter(s) to adjust for the new email
address.

>> You might be able to move the file from one directory to another
>> in a file manager or on the command line, but I'm not sure if
>> Claws would recognize that you did that or would need to rescan
>> the directories. If anyone reading this knows, please jump in.  
>
>I move lots of files to make selective/partial backups. Claws seems
>to be OK with this so far.

Yep, I saw a message from one of the developers about that just now,
too. That's good to know. In the past, I've been opening the files
and getting further information, so this will save me those
additional steps.

>> I grep a lot. It's my preferred way of finding things.  
>
>I like recoll and use it a lot. Does sophisticated searches and is
>faster with multiple TB of data. But does take a while to update the
>index and didn't do this since this problem so NG for this problem.

Interesting. I added it to my list of programs to try, although I've
been using grep for so long that it's habit to just reach for a
terminal window when looking for something.

>Thanks for the help,

Any time. I'm glad it worked out.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.